Baptism of Early Virginia How Christianity Created Race

Name: Baptism of Early Virginia How Christianity Created Race
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ISBN: 9781421407005

ISBN-10: 1421407000

ISBN-13: 9781421407005

Edition: 2012

Authors: Rebecca Anne Goetz

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In The Baptism of Early Virginia, Rebecca Anne Goetz examines the construction of race through the religious beliefs and practices of English Virginians. She argues that the seventeenth century was a critical time for the development and articulation of racial ideologies. Paramount was the idea of "hereditary heathenism," the notion that Africans and Indians were incapable of genuine Christian conversion. In Virginia in particular, English settlers initially believed that native people would quickly become Christian and would form a vibrant partnership with English people. After those hopes were dashed by vicious Anglo-Indian violence, English Virginians used Christian rituals like marriage…

Book details

List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 10/1/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.84" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Acknowledgments


A Note on Terminology


Introduction: Potential Christians and Hereditary Heathens in Virginia



English Christians among the Blackest Nations



The Rise and Fall of the Anglo-Indian Christian Commonwealth



Faith in the Blood



Baptism and the Birth of Race



Becoming Christian, Becoming White



The Children of Israel


Epilogue: Christian Abolitionism and Proslavery Christianity


Notes


Essay on Sources


Index